A Saturday, December 30th, welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill. I'm alone in the studio.

This is the last market foolery of 2017. Just wanted to share a couple of thoughts to wrap up the year.

Share a story that hopefully has a point or two that might be worth your time.

If not, no worries.

We'll be back on Tuesday.

The market's closed on New Year's Day, but we're back on Tuesday, January 2nd,

with a preview of the Consumer Electronics Show out in Las Vegas.

One housekeeping note, I was asked to mention... out in Las Vegas.

One housekeeping note I was asked to mention, and I think I mentioned this before, we are

looking for summer interns for 2018, so if you're interested, go to careers. fool.com because we're looking for summer

interns investing interns tech interns editorial careers dot fool

com so I've done a couple of solo episodes this year. I think we're

closing in on somewhere in the neighborhood of 1400 episodes of market foolery

that we've done and I I think I've done about a dozen of these

so averaging about one every 100 episodes or so and I know that one of the ones I did

earlier in the year was back in June when there was the shooting here in

Alexandria, Virginia, not too far from full headquarters, the congressional baseball practice was going on and one of the things I said at that time

was the timeless advice from Mr Rogers whenever there is chaos whenever there

are troubles look for the helpers so we'll we'll come back to that point in a minute

last year on this episode I talked about my experience at the

Marine Corps Marathon and how I ended up in a medical tent.

And I got some emails and questions on Twitter from the listeners who had heard that one and

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